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Jennifer Roback Morse

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Jennifer Roback Morse (born November 12, 1953) is the President and Founder of the Ruth Institute, formerly a project of the National Organization for Marriage[1] for the promotion of man/woman marriage. The Institute's mission is to "make marriage cool" by promoting the idea of lifelong, committed marriage. The Institute has been designated an anti-LGBT hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center[2] She speaks on college campuses and at other venues around the country on issues concerning marriage.[3]

Educational career

Morse is a former teacher of economics at George Mason University. She is now a part-time Research Fellow at the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty.[4][self-published source]

Personal life

A Catholic, Morse is a married mother of two: a girl born in 1991, and a Romanian boy she adopted that same year, at the age of 2.[4][self-published source]

Published works

  • Smart Sex: Finding Life-long Love in a Hook-up World
  • Love and Economics: Why the Laissez-Faire Family Doesn't Work.
  • "Wages, Rents, and the Quality of Life," Journal of Political Economy, 1982.

Notes

  1. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-09-17. Retrieved 2009-09-28. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. ^ "Active Anti-LGBT Groups". Southern Poverty Law Center: Hatewatch. 2 March 2015. Retrieved 25 August 2017.
  3. ^ http://loveandfidelity.org/default.aspx?ID=11#Q4 Archived 2010-04-30 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ a b Morse, Jennifer (2008-01-13). "About Dr. J". JRM Enterprises. Archived from the original on February 21, 2006. Retrieved 2008-12-01.